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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Studio Art Courses
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Studio Art
ART 111 - Introduction to the Studio 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Introduction to the Studio is a beginning level studio course designed to introduce and ground students in core principles of art making in a rigorous, hands-on studio. These principles will be taught though a series of practical exercises using traditional and digital tools. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills, knowledge of materials, methods of observation and translation, collaboration, discussion, and creative discipline.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
ART 134 - Drawing 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An introduction to observational drawing and contemporary drawing practice. Subjects will include architecture, objects, landscape, and the figure. Traditional and non-traditional media will be explored. Emphasis on technical skill, perceptual development, and critical skills.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Staff
ART 155 - Introduction to Film Studies 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Cross-listed as: FMS 155 . This course introduces students to select issues in film studies. Students will learn key vocabulary and concepts of film forms, techniques, and history and develop critical analysis skills necessary to become informed viewers of a wide variety of historical and contemporary films. Class time will be used for screenings and critical study of major films. Students will produce written critical responses to film, production exercises using consumer tools (smartphones, basic editing software), and a research presentation.
Prerequisite: None.
Instructor: Tavares
ART 236 - Print Media 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course involves an exploration of print processes. Emphasis is placed on the development of individual skills and an aesthetic appreciation of prints through creation, production, and study. This investigation includes historical and contemporary roles of multiples within the context of select media and broader artistic practices.
Prerequisite: ART 111 with grade, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Kluber
ART 237 - Chemistry of Artists’ Materials 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Cross-listed as: SCI 237 . This team-taught course will examine the physical properties of various artists’ materials and will use these materials to generate new creative work. Examples of materials to be investigated may include, but not be limited to: paper, plaster, paint binders, pigments and dyes. The class will be a combination of in-class discussion, laboratory, and studio practice; it will be a rare opportunity for students to learn from two inquiry-based disciplines in two different locations on campus.
Prerequisite: ART 111 with grade, S, C, or better.
Note: Not offered every year.
Instructor: Trimmer
ART 238 - Painting 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course is an introduction to the materials, techniques, and practice of painting. Such a practice is concerned with issues, both technical and intellectual, that will give students the knowledge to transpose, construct, and execute using the medium of paint.
Prerequisite: ART 111 with grade, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Kaufman
ART 240 - Ceramics 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Students develop sculptural forms with traditional and contemporary ceramic materials, processes and techniques. Focus is on volumetric form, surface texture, and various surface treatments emphasizing ceramics materials, processes and techniques within contemporary art. While respecting global ceramic craft traditions, students concentrate on experiential inquiry to encourage innovation and adaptation within the expanding ceramic field (including the use of digital tools). Students read, write, observe, present, experiment and construct within the studio setting to research and develop ceramic sculpture resulting in a small portfolio that reflects each student’s inquiry in individual and group work.
Prerequisite: ART 111 with grade, S, C, or better.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Chen
ART 242 - Sculpture 4 credits (Spring)
This course will explore techniques and concepts employed by contemporary sculptors. Students will utilize materials from the ephemeral to the permanent to explore issues of space and construction through a series of creative projects.
Prerequisite: ART 111 with grade, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Staff
ART 246 - Digital Media 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course explores contemporary digital media art practice. Students will work with a variety of software, hardware, and digital tools in addressing visual ideas. This course encourages students to employ the computer as a visual-thinking tool.
Prerequisite: ART 111 with grade, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Staff
ART 255 - Fundamentals of Video Production 4 credits (Fall and Spring)
Cross-listed as: FMS 255 . This hands-on production course is designed to introduce students to the moving image as a form of contemporary art practice. Students will learn the skills, theories, and concepts used in digital video, participating in all aspects of production, including gathering ideas, writing a project description, storyboarding, shooting, editing, and screening. Students will be exposed to and research a range of moving image artists, gaining an understanding of the history of video art and related forms.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Tavares
ART 295-01 - Special Topic: Experimental Ceramics 4 credits (Spring)
We will investigate the possibilities of ceramics. We will break away from the perceived limits of the material and find new paths to explore. Installation, mix media, and performance will be used as ways of making to encourage innovation within the expanding ceramic field. Students read, write, observe, present, experiment and construct within the studio setting to research and develop ceramic sculpture resulting in a small portfolio that reflects each student’s inquiry in individual and group work.
Prerequisite: ART 111 with grade S, C, or better.
Instructor: Strangfeld
ART 310 - Advanced Studio: Hybrid Media 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This advanced studio course involves investigating and expanding a visual idea across a range of media. Students have an opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary, expansive approach to art making.
Prerequisite: 12 credits of 200-level studio art with grades, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Kluber
ART 315 - Advanced Studio: Contemporary Practices 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
An interdisciplinary studio course designed to introduce students to contemporary artistic practices and concepts. Emphasis is placed on ideation, concept, and form integration.
Prerequisite: 12 credits of 200-level studio art with grades, S, C, or better.
Instructor: Kaufman
ART 499 - Mentored Advanced Project — Studio 4 credits (Fall or Spring)
Senior Project: A concentrated focus within a specific medium in which the student has extensive experience. This course is aimed at establishing a personal direction in content and personal expression while developing a mature portfolio in preparation for an advanced degree. The project includes preparation, creation, and public presentation of a body of artwork. Seniors must obtain approval of a department member for the desired medium as supervisor of the project. The MAP application must be completed with the required project statement and with all faculty signatures before submission to the Office of the Registrar. All applications are subject to approval of the dean of the College.
Prerequisite: 300-level studio course, senior standing, and departmental approval of official MAP proposal before the end of the preceding semester.
See additional information on MAP’s.
Instructor: Staff
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